Apr
04
2008
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Safari Update Fixes My Biggest Pet Peeve |
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MacOS -
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
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File this under inconsequential for most people (I'm presuming), but the latest Safari update (3.1) addresses one of my biggest pet peeves with the app. I got so used to creating new tabs in Firefox (Win and Mac) by simply clicking in the blank area next to the current tab(s). In Safari, I would also do this only to be reminded that I have to right-click in the area and select 'New Tab' or Command+T. Since I was introduced to tabs with Firefox, I was just so used to clicking in the aforementioned area to create my new tab that I could never adapt. I'm no longer forced to eventually learn a new trick now since Safari now includes the Firefox-like behavior for creating a blank tab. This will save me about 60 seconds of productivity and an ounce of frustration every day. Cool.  Be first to comment this article |  Add as favourites (0) | Print | E-mail
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Mar
09
2008
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MacOS -
General
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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
So I have an iPhone now, so I can be both a Mac Snob and an iPhone Snob, which is kind of the same, but different since you can own an iPhone without really being a Mac Person.
But I digress - the real purpose of this post is to discuss Joomla as a WebApp for the iPhone. In case you don't know, iPhone WebApps are web sites (or special versions of web sites) that are optimized for the iPhone, even though the iPhone is capable of presenting the "whole Internet" as-is.
It took about one minute of searching to find an example template, and another to find some code for detecting the iPhone as the client.
What I don't have working yet is the proper code (or correct placement) to switch templates when iPhone = true. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to share them in the comments.
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Feb
26
2008
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My Mac Honeymoon is Over. |
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MacOS -
General
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
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The first seven months of my Mac Experience were wonderful. After many years of being a Windows user, and eyeing the Mac from afar, I finally made the Switch in June and never looked back.
I’m still not looking back, but the honeymoon is definitely over. It started a couple of weeks ago, when I simply couldn’t log into to my Macbook Pro (not long after the 10.5.2 update). After several failures with potential fixes via the install disk and Terminal, I gave up and decided to just restore a Time Machine backup.
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Feb
20
2008
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MacOS -
Applications
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
One of the best things about being a Mac user is all the cool, little apps (free or otherwise) that you can find to make your life easier. iusethis.com
and macupdate.com
are both great resources for finding these little gems.
Some of these apps may come and go from your hard drive, but Skitch
and Jing
are two that I never plan to get rid of. Both can do a lot more than what I describe below, but just for what I use it for, they've become indispensable.
Skitch
Skitch is the ultimate screenshot app in my opinion. At it's most
basic, it's like OSX's built in Grab. However, once you take the
screenshot, you can instantly start drawing, typing, and drawing arrows
to things in the shot, then drag or use a keyboard combo to send it in
an email. Perfect for when you are working with a Photoshop comp or
HTML layout and have questions for the graphic designer or project
manager and would rather "show" them than write out a long description of
the issue.
Skitch is currently in public beta, which I guess means it won't be free forever.
Jing
Jing is past the beta stage and is just free. I'm not sure why they're just giving it away, but I'm not complaining.
Simply put, Jing makes flash videos (with audio) of any portion of your
desktop. This has beceome invaluable for creating short tutorials for
clients on how to accomplish some of the basic admin tasks in Joomla.
It's also useful for repeating a client's steps to produce an error,
then sharing it with the client to confirm the steps, etc.
Jing gives you the option to upload your screencasts to Jing's servers, FTP to the site of your choosing, or save locally.
(Jing can also do screenshots with post screenshot editing and Flickr
upload, but appears to be missing the straight-to-email option I use so
often in Skitch.
The briefest of demos
Here's a brief (audio muted) Jing screencast showing Skitch in action as I prepare to write this post: link
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Feb
13
2008
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MacOS -
Applications
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
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It appears that Dreamweaver CS3 for the Mac has hit a nerve with many people. Let's face it, I don't get a whole lot of traffic on this website, but my earlier story
on Dreamweaver being slow and generally a pain gets, by far, the most views. So I guess the lesson here is to mention DREAMWEAVER a lot since DREAMWEAVER, or maybe a collection of keywords like 'DREAMWEAVER CRAP SLOW BLANK SOURCE VIEW WINDOW', will do the trick.
But seriously, I still have Dreamweaver installed on my Macbook Pro, and I even use it occasionally to create complex tables, maintain a few Dreamweaver Template/Library Item-driven sites (ugh) and 'Apply Source Formatting' for my unruly code. Beyond these simple tasks, however, it honestly isn't worth it. Unless you just can't do anything without a wysiwyg environment, you're better off with either something like Coda
or a combination of an FTP app ( Transmit , Cyberduck , etc.) and a Text Editor ( Smultron, Text Wrangler, Taco HTML Editor, etc.).
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